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If your democratic process leaves you no option but to vote for genocide, your democratic process has already failed.
NB he/they @aral Or if it doesn’t matter how I vote because I already know who’s going to win my state.
Democracy means "Rule By the Media"
@aral ok, then what?
Voting for genocide is something that democracies periodically do. There is nothing inherent in the democratic process that prevents it. Democratic states are not that different from authoritarian states.
In one of the famous cases, the Mytilenean Debate, the genocide was rescinded for reasons of imperial interest, not because it was judged to be wrong.
@aral don't vote and it will get much much worse. It is just life.
@aral It's really not at all clear if you are advocating to fix democratic processes or abandon them.
And I think it's very troubling that your post can be fairly interpreted either way.
@distantreplay I think it’s troubling that there’s a genocide going on.
@aral I'm not disagreeing with that. Nor do I see any progressive voters and political leaders disagreeing with that.
But I also don't see how abandoning democracy would bring us any closer to ending/preventing genocide.
Fixing democracy will require more participation, not less.
@aral yeah dude, we fucking know that. what is your god damned point?
@aral democratic capitalism working exactly as designed.